Wildlife Habitat Plants

Virtually all forms of wildlife have four basic needs that must be met: food, shelter, water and space. Regardless of the size of your real property – from a vast ranch to a small urban lot – you can probably provide at least two of those needs: food and water. If you can provide the other two elements – space and shelter – or if they exist close by, perhaps in the form of woodland, then you have all the necessary ingredients. Please click on the link to my weekly column in “The Plantman” at LandSteward.org. Making your landscape a bird and wildlife 'magnet' When your finished reading the column just click the back button to go back.

American Bittersweet American Bittersweet Celastrus scandens displays a bright yellow-orange fruit that ripens in October. American Bittersweet is a great variety for wildlife because of its food value. With American Bittersweet's handsome fruit it is always welcome.	American Hazelnut American Hazelnut, Corylus americana, grows as a strong multi-stemmed shrub; with desirable, edible nuts that mature in Sepember - October. American Hazelnut can be planted extensively by wildlife enthusiasts to attract and keep game in an area.	Apache Blackberry Apache Blackberry Thornless sweet blackberry (New Patent) This newly released thorn less Apache Blackberry from Arkansas produces larger fruit and higher yields than any of the other previously released Arkansas thorn less erect blackberry cultivars.
Arapaho Blackberry Arapaho Blackberry or Rubus ulmifrolius comes in two popular varieties. Arapaho Blackberries do not need a trellis, and have an excellent sweet flavor. Arapaho Blackberry is a new release from the University of Arkansas.	Aspen Quaking Aspen Quaking-Populus tremuloides or Quaking Aspen is a beautiful fast growing native tree that is extremely cold hardy. Quaking Aspen has green heart shaped leaves in the summer, turn a brilliant yellow-orange in the fall.	Barberry Red Barberry Red Berberis thunbergii is a dense, rounded, thorny shrub with red leaves and bright red berries. Barberry Red is used as a hedge, barrier or in groupings.
Bat House Kit Bat House Kit makes a great home project. These bat habitat kits are made with rough-sawn Maine White Pine. The rough surface on the bat house kit gives the bats something to hang onto.	Butterfly House Butterfly House is a way to introduce butterfly watching and gathering to the children. Let them hang a Butterfly House in the garden and then check it weekly to see what transpires.	Caragana Siberian Peashrub Caragana arborescens or siberian peashrub provides a dense windbreak cover, and is good for windbreak plantings. This shrub is cold and drought tolerant. Ships: Spring only
Cherrybark Oak Cherrybark Oak, the fastest growing tree of the red oak family. Cherrybark Oak is highly prized and the wood is of high quality due to the trees rapid self-pruning characteristics.	Gobbler Sawtooth Oak Oak Gobbler Sawtooth, or Quercus acutissima "Gobbler'" is the same as the Sawtooth Oak but producing a smaller acorn. The smaller acorn of the Oak Gobbler Sawtooth is desirable as a food source for wild turkeys.	Grass Pennisetum.Hameln Hameln Grass is our personal favorite. Hameln Grass' compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular warm season Pennisetum cultivars. Hameln Grass' are usually grown for their flower clusters (plumes) that appear i
Honeysuckle Arnolds Red Honeysuckle Arnolds Red, or Lonicera arnolds red, is a prized cultivar of tartarian honeysuckle with bright red blooms in the spring. Honeysuckle Arnolds Red is a tall growing shrub good for windbreaks and able to withstand drought	Japanese Snowball Viburnum Japanese Snowball Viburnum, Viburnum plicatum, is a popular flowering shrub. The Japanese Snowball produces beautiful round white flowers in spring (usually April to May). After the Snowball's flower show in spring, its bright red berries will...	Karley Rose Grass Karley Rose Grass, Pennisetum orientale, has dark green foliage topped with long-blooming (June till frost) rose lavender plumes. I knew Karley Rose Grass was another of a long list of great plants that I had to add to the garden.
Kousa Dogwood Tree Kousa Dogwood, Cornus kousa or japanese flowering dogwood, is a handsome small specimen tree or shrub. The Kousa Dogwood is resistant to the dogwood anthracnose disease, unlike the native Flowering Dogwood.	Lily of the Kings Iris Iris Lily of the Kings, (Discontinued Item) Iris pseudacorus a most interesting and striking plant for small ponds or hard to grow wet areas. Iris Lily of the Kings is an iris of wet places, usually growing in shallow water or at the edge of a pond	Little Bluestem Grass Little Bluestem grass, schizachyrium scoparium, is one of the more interesting warm season grasses. An unusual grass, the Little Bluestem will grow in full sun to partially shaded areas and once established is drought tolerant.
Miscanthus Adagio Grass Miscanthus Adagio Grass is an early flowering beauty with reddish/white pendulous plumes that move in the slightest breeze. Miscanthus Adagio Grass is the durable addition for the summer or winter garden.	Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass is perhaps the oldest cultivar of miscanthus sinensis and remains very popular to this day.	Nanking Cherry Tree Nanking Cherry or Prunus tomentosa is a beautiful flowering Nanking Cherry shrub that produces edible fruit. The fruit of the Nanking cherry is commonly used for human consumption in pies and jellies.
Northern Red Oak Northern Red oak, is of the most important oaks for timber production in North America. The wood quality is considered high value that makes is a great tree to consider in forest plantations..The Northern Red Oak is and easy tree to transplant.	Overcup Oak Overcup Oak, a beautiful medium size spreading oak with a rounded form and symmetrical shape. The acorns are loved by ducks, wild turkeys, white-tailed deer, and squirrels.	Pin Oak Pin Oak, or Quercus palustris, is probably the most widely used native oak for landscaping. Oak Pin is one of the faster growing oaks, 12 to 15' over a 5 to 7 year period. Oak Pin can also be used in a wetland environment.
Red Twig Dogwood Red Twig Dogwood or red-osier dogwood, also called red-twig dogwood because of its distinctive, and attractive deep red branches. It is a beautiful upright shrub that displays white blossoms in May giving way to bright red berries in the fall.	Rosa Hansen Hedge Rosa Hansen Hedge, A Living Fence Selection! Single pink to white, fragrant blossoms which appear in June and bloom all summer. Blossoms are followed by very large red hips in late summer and last all winter.	Russian Olive Russian Olive plants have been planted for wild turkey and deer as a wildlife food source.
Sawtooth Oak Sawtooth Oak is a wide spreading, clean foliaged shade or lawn tree. Also a good food source for wildlife	Sawtooth Oak (large) Part of the beauty of sawtooth oak is the clean, glossy appearance of the foliage. Sawtooth Oaks foliage is unblemished and glossy-green all summer long. In the fall, it turns yellow, finally aging to grocery-bag brown. Young trees of sawtooth...	Thuja Cedar Green Giant Thuja Cedar Green Giant, SPECIAL LOW LOW PRICE! or as we call it the Cedar Green Giant, is one of the most popular pyramidal shaped evergreen trees.
White Flowering Dogwood White Flowering Dogwood, Cornus Florida, is the ”aristocrat” of flowering trees because it is breathtakingly beautiful with its white blossoms. The White Flowering Dogwood Tree has an excellent show of white blossoms in spring, and bright red berries